i can't wait to play this.
I got home yesterday to find that my package from Cheapass Games had arrived. I had ordered a copy of the "Give me the brain" cardgame, and the boardgame "Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Adventure".
what a great premise for a boardgame:
in 1898 Captain Park made an historic expedition to the Antarctic. He returned with strange artifacts, tales of high adventure, and memories of heroes lost in the ice.
So he says.
Fact is, the old liar never set foot outside London, and his "artifacts" came from a little antique shop in Stepney which he frequently visited in disguise.
You are tempted to expose the old liar, but you'd rather have a few expeditions of your own. You'll spend a few months keeping your head low, and return with tales of high adventure.
If your friends don't do it first...
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I have been pleased at your prolific posting and would like to say I'd enjoy those games too.
3:56 PM
my friends Kallie and Steve have started a wonderful tradition of hosting get-togethers on the full moon of each month, where we eat home-made sticky buns and play card and board games. in recent months we've played the popular "Apples to Apples" (which is a real hoot!) and the obscure old "Robo Rally" which is as close to writing code to control industrial robots as a board game can get and still be fun. But recently Steve introduced me to the wonderful Cheapass Games company with their funny as hell "Give me the Brain" card game.
Cheapass have a couple of qualities that really set them apart from your run-of-the-mill game company:
1) they really are cheapass. games are usually less than $10. they reason that basically, most games use the same dice or markers or fake money as playing pieces, so why not just use the ones you already have to play new games?
2) game play is usually pretty simple, but has wonderfully off-kilter premises, like bankrupted American businessmen who engage in winner-take-all wrestling matches in "Tiajuana Death Match" or sois chefs trying to scale a tall building in "Devil Bunny Needs a Ham".
3) great artwork, considering the cheapass product. not only do a lot of the games seem to involve paintings of zombies, but they've managed to commision a lot of artwork from comic artist Phil Foglio, one of the only indications i ever had that Dragon Magazine had a sense of humor.
10:21 PM
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